Can you tell us a bit about your website?

Nannotax (ina.tmsoc.org/Nannotax3) is a website to document the taxonomy of coccolithophores – a group of minute planktonic algae. There are about 2000 described living and fossil species and having a website which documents them is important to a range of paleontologists and marine biologists scattered around the world. The site has >2000 pages and >10,000 images.

How did you discover the Commentics site?

I did a google search for php commenting scripts.

What made you choose the script over others?

It sounded like what I wanted – open source, flexible but simple to use, with spam protection and able to be integrated into a website as a discrete module.

What advice would you give to fellow admins?

This is an excellent solution for implementing commenting on a website.

How, if at all, did you customize the script?

I did not touch the script itself but I delved quite deeply into text options, redrew some of the icons, etc. The big challenges were working out how to implement the script on a site with thousands of database generated pages (it proved very easy) and working out how to import comments from a previous site (again straightforward, with the help of some good advice from the forum).

What would you like to see added or improved?

I'd like to work out how to make a page of recent comments. Also it would be very nice to have a system for people to subscribe to the website – with a user name and password, as an alternative to the current identification based on email and IP address.

Have you ever needed to use the support site?

Yes – I asked about how to import comments – and got lovingly detailed instructions.

Has Commentics helped your website so far?

Yes – commenting was something I really needed to implement and it has done it very effectively.

Would you recommend Commentics to others?

Absolutely.

Do you have any final words to add?

Thanks very much.